Half the struggle is that all the meta actions around doing the thing create a kind of synthetic realness. It feels like progress, but it’s just noise. When the Reality Drift Equation tilts toward excess entropy, your brain mistakes preparation loops for actual work and you end up in identity drift instead of momentum. The only way out is collapsing the loop by acting, not optimizing the wrapper around the action.

Yeah sure. The tricky part is if you even know which action to take. To actually do that you need to research enough, conceptualize the end goal and envison a rough but workable plan.

Most people don't and blindly stumble going after short term to mid term reward. Then later life crashes them hard, except for the lucky few.

And the truth is, now some people have many more luck coupons to spend than others.